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Crystal Palace Overground Festival: Westow Park & Crystal Palace Triangle, SE19 13-16 June, 2012 iPhone, iPad and iTouch users can download a FREE festival app from the iTunes store. Featuring general information, an interactive map pin-pointing where events are taking place and listings by artists and venues for the 4 days of the festival www.crystalpalacefestival.org The…

Festival organisers are in the process of organising a repeat of 2011’s hugely successful Crystal Palace Overground Festival. The FREE community arts festival is planned for Wednesday, June 13 to Saturday, June 16 at Crystal Palace Triangle with the main event and opening with Jim Bob, best known as the singer of indie band…

The Crystal Palace Garden Parties were an amazing series of festivals in the Crystal Palace Bowl in the park South East London. The Garden Parties in Crystal Palace Bowl historically ran from 1971 into 1980s and were mostly one day festivals. Among the amazing list of bands that played these shows : PINK FLOYD, BEACH BOYS, BOB MARLEY…

This weekend sees a not to be missed visit to Artist Open House, as part of the Dulwich Festival. The Artists Open House, now in its eighth year, is bigger than ever. More than 200 artists in over 150 locations across Dulwich and surrounding areas are opening their homes and studios as part of the Dulwich…

A LEADING South East London estate agency has been confirmed as the headline sponsor for this year’s Crystal Palace Overground Festival. Acorn Estate Agency Crystal Palace will sponsor the 6th annual Crystal Palace Overground Festival for the second year running. The free 4-day festival will take place round the Crystal Palace Triangle (13-16 June, 2012) with events running in the…

FESTIVAL PROGRAMME CONFIRMED Sydenham Arts Festival 2012′s fantastic programme is now finalised and details will be announced very soon. Highlights include Arts in the Park/Family Fun Day on Sunday 1 July, an open-air production of The Jungle Book (3-8 July), a ‘Battle of the Bards’ playwriting competition and Word Explosion, a family-friendly literary festival headlined…

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the destruction of the Crystal Palace by fire on the 30th November 1936, the Crystal Palace Museum will be presenting a special large screen showing of dramatic images of the 1936 fire. This will be shown all day during the normal museum’s winter opening times (11am – 3.00pm) on…

The second Crystal Palace International Film festival which opens on Sunday (September 15th) has attracted more than 600 entries. More than 80 of the films submitted have been chosen as finalists for the festival including films which feature famous names such as John Hurt, Keith Allen and Jean Reno (Leon) as well as familiar…

Van Gogh painted this self-portrait in Paris, in the winter of 1887-1888. It reflects that city’s influence in its adaption of Pointillism, the use of small dots of pure colour to create an optical illusion of light. The technique had been quite recently developed by Georges Seurat in 1886. However, Van Gogh was never a…

Future of the fifth Crystal Palace Festival will be secured thanks to new management team, sponsors and community support. When Andy Stem, founder and organiser of the Crystal Palace Festival for the last four years decided to step down, the question was who would to take up the baton and build on his previous successes?…